The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th CenturyStudie over leven en werk van de Arabische ontdekkingsreiziger Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Baṭūtah (1304-1368/9). |
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Page 84
... rulers , beginning with Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu in 1256 , could not quite make up their minds whether to carry through policies designed to reconstruct the country and revive agriculture or to treat the land as permanent enemy ...
... rulers , beginning with Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu in 1256 , could not quite make up their minds whether to carry through policies designed to reconstruct the country and revive agriculture or to treat the land as permanent enemy ...
Page 183
... rulers of Afghanistan began dispatching great bands of holy warriors against the Hindu cultivators of the Indus and Ganges valleys . These ghazis seized the main towns of the Punjab , or upper Indus region . Lahore became a capital of ...
... rulers of Afghanistan began dispatching great bands of holy warriors against the Hindu cultivators of the Indus and Ganges valleys . These ghazis seized the main towns of the Punjab , or upper Indus region . Lahore became a capital of ...
Page 221
... rulers ' power and wealth depended almost entirely on customs revenues and the profits of their personal transactions in the maritime trade . We may suppose that the government of these cities was nothing less than a working partnership ...
... rulers ' power and wealth depended almost entirely on customs revenues and the profits of their personal transactions in the maritime trade . We may suppose that the government of these cities was nothing less than a working partnership ...
Other editions - View all
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 1989 |
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 2004 |
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 2005 |
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